Books by Philip Seargeant

Ideal for general readers as well as students and researchers of language, linguistics and communication, this book examines the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they can teach us about the nature of language, as well as our relationships with technology, society and ourselves.

This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction.

This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies - drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history - inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language.